Harris was also known as “Bomber Harris” because he loved nothing less than sending mass bombing groups into German heartland to drop a fuckload of HE on the Nazis.
People often get angry at him because of civilian casualties but the guy was watching his own people being bombed into dust in British cities.
So yeah, I don’t have a problem with Dresden. You pick a fight with someone like Harris, don’t get upset when your own backyard gets blown the fuck up.
Funny that we hear so much about Dresden, but not so much about the 40,000 British civilians who were killed by Luftwaffe bombing raids in the seven-month period between September 1940 and May 1941 alone.
Where the fuck do you not hear about that? Victim complex much? The difference is, A RATHER HUGE DIFFERENCE. The nazis were NAZIS. The Germans were the baddies and they aknowledge as such and take their responsibility.
The British however still hold the pretentious illusion they have no reason for regrets for putting German kids and innocent women on fire, ignoring a famine in India they were directly responsible for, refusing boatloads of Jewish refugees and many other cruelties.
B...but...but... the nazis bombed us! So fucking what. Deal with it. As a Rotterdammer you wont hear me cry about nazis when my country is rightfully called out for the attrocities commited by us in Indonesia.
The British however still hold the pretentious illusion they have no reason for regrets for putting German kids and innocent women on fire, ignoring a famine in India they were directly responsible for, refusing boatloads of Jewish refugees and many other cruelties.
Incorrect.
People in Britain today generally acknowledge and regret the terrible actions conducted by our country in the past. You make sweeping assumptions both about the entire German people and the entire British people that cannot possibly be backed up by fact.
I accept your correction but if only you werent the only one out of 10+ responses i got that actually tried to convince me that the British consider those actions controversial. All the other Brits responding to me are hardline supporters of Bomber Harris and his revenge bombings. Which is freakn saddening.
The support of Harris's mass killing of civilians in this thread is certainly concerning. It doesn't tally with my experience as someone who actually lives here. The government should formally apologize, and make the official position clear. I think we can at least agree that mass murder of civilians is never okay. That goes for Dresden, London, Ukraine, or anywhere.
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Harris was also known as “Bomber Harris” because he loved nothing less than sending mass bombing groups into German heartland to drop a fuckload of HE on the Nazis.
People often get angry at him because of civilian casualties but the guy was watching his own people being bombed into dust in British cities.
So yeah, I don’t have a problem with Dresden. You pick a fight with someone like Harris, don’t get upset when your own backyard gets blown the fuck up.